Tsinghua University Architecture Studio Works 1: Food Beijing

Author: Shan Jun Zhang Yue
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: "Tsinghua Architectural StudioWorks" is a real record of the "Themed Design (Studio)" at the School of Architecture, Tsinghua University. It includes teachers' teaching introductions, objectives, and plans, as well as students' complete design thinking processes and outcomes. It also features insightful comments from teaching staff, as well as scholars from the architectural field and other disciplines. It is one of the achievements of the new round of teaching reforms at the School of Architecture, Tsinghua University. "Dining Beijing" is a topic in the third-year studio teaching at the School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, and also a vivid and typical teaching experience. Teachers and students take Beijing as the backdrop, focusing on the spatial and formal expressions of "eating" (diet) in daily life, which is closely related to the general public, and explore its impact on the urban environment. They attempt to understand social phenomena from an architectural perspective and solve urban problems through architectural means. The course not only stimulates students' creativity but also guides them to reflect on the social responsibility of architects. "Dining Beijing" serves as a way to read Beijing from one side, reflecting the массовость ( массовость is Russian for "massiveness" but should be "massiveness" in English), social nature, and "humanistic care" of architecture. It is not only an active exploration of the target model of architecture but also a profound reflection on the meaning of architecture itself. This book is suitable for architecture and urban planning students as a teaching aid for design courses. For professionals in the fields of architecture, sociology, culture, and all readers concerned with the development of contemporary cities and architecture, represented by Beijing, it can also provide new inspiration.